Says he's "torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader".

Farron popped up from nowhere. He was an unknown, a political upstart when he became leader just two years ago.

The party was reeling after being pulverised at the 2015 general election. In 2010 the LibDems sold their principles for a taste of power and entered into coalition government with Cameron’s Conservatives. Their punishment was a crushing defeat in the 2015 general election, which saw LibDem MPs plummet from 57 to a miserable 8. They wanted someone who wasn’t tainted by that fiasco.

Farron is a born-again Christian and wears it on his sleeve. The Jewish Chronicle reported that Farron’s candidacy for leader was backed by senior British Jews in the party. He declared he was a friend of Israel, opposed to BDS (the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement) and he promised to have “no truck” with antisemitism if elected leader. “One of the things I want us to do is promote the party’s support of Israel as a state and people…. The answer to the crisis is a two state solution – that has got to be our focus.”

He talked as though he’d been suckered into the ranks of Zionism which is where many deluded Christians gravitate. For someone who’d never been to the Holy Land to see the situation for himself Farron was too hasty to dig himself (and his party) into a deep pro-Israel hole. He said he intended to visit Israel and the West Bank for the first time later that year (2015). He would have been wise to keep his mouth shut until he’d seen first-hand the horrors of the Israeli occupation, the dispossession and oppression of Muslim and Christian Palestinians trapped in the shredded remnants of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the living hell created by Israel’s blockade of Gaza.

Farron told the Jewish Chronicle that he understood the importance of religious practices. In the Holy Land he’d see the effect of sickening religious malpractice which surely would prick the overblown bubble of his supernatural fantasy world.

The best way for a Christian needing to know the dark facts of religious life would be to visit occupied Palestine as a guest of the Church – preferably the Catholic Church which has a wide front-line presence and probably the best intelligence service in the Middle East. But it’s more likely that his trip, if he’d gone, would have been the usual Friends of Israel brainwashing tour hosted by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He’d come home with his Zionist tendencies even more inflated.

Raw politics and supernatural beliefs don’t mix

All through this year’s general election Farron was dogged by media questions about his views on gay sex. Confused by his evangelical upbringing he didn’t give a straight answer, and that was his undoing. Finally he changed tack insisting it wasn’t a sin after all. As a result of this rather cruel spotlight on his faith he found himself “torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader. A better, wiser person may have been able to deal with this more successfully, to remain faithful to Christ while leading a political party in the current environment.”

He reached the conclusion that “to be a leader, particularly of a progressive liberal party in 2017 and to live as a committed Christian and to hold faithful to the Bible’s teaching has felt impossible for me.”

Did he ever visit the Holy Land as he promised to do in 2015? I’ve found nothing to confirm that he made that vital journey. So it seems he has always spoken on Israel/Palestine from a position of ignorance. During the general election this year Farron showed his true colours once again by sacking former MP David Ward as LibDem candidate for Bradford East over accusations of antisemitism. He earlier decided not to drop Ward, but after pressure from Theresa May at Prime Minister’s Questions and protests from Jewish organisations, he U-turned and said: “I believe in a politics that is open, tolerant and united. David Ward is unfit to represent the party and I have sacked him.”

Unfit? What was Ward’s crime? He had made a string of statements that ruffled zio feathers. On Holocaust Memorial Day in 2013, he said: “I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza”.

He told the Guardian: “There is a huge operation out there, a machine almost, which is designed to protect the state of Israel from criticism. And that comes into play very, very quickly.”

On another occasion he tweeted: “At long last the Zionists are losing the battle – how long can the apartheid State of Israel last?” The party suspended him as an MP for several months.

In another tweet he said: “The big question is – if I lived in Gaza would I fire a rocket? – probably yes”.

He commented that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s presence in Paris in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack “makes me feel sick”.

Was any of this a flogging offence? Hardly. But Farron said: “I am fully aware of the comments David Ward has made in the past and I find them deeply offensive, wrong and antisemitic…. David Ward has been disciplined in the past and if he or anyone else makes antisemitic remarks in this campaign I will expect the party to act quickly and decisively,

Ward observed: “The pressure works. It’s the fear of the electoral damage that can be done by being seen to oppose Israel. It’s contaminating and infecting our own political system.”

In his resignation speech Farron said: “I seem to be the subject of suspicion because of what I believe and who my faith is in. In which case we are kidding ourselves if we think we yet live in a tolerant, liberal society. That’s why I have chosen to step down as leader of the Liberal Democrats.”

Farron talks of society’s intolerance but his own intolerance was plain to see. And unwisely ‘doing God’ was not the only reason for his exit. He had increased the LibDems’ seats to 12 but lost some key representatives in the process leaving the LibDems still a pipsqueak party. It wasn’t a good performance given the scope for big gains.

So it’s goodbye Tim. Raw politics and supernatural beliefs don’t mix. And if you let gay sex and the Israel lobby get the better of you it’s time to find a career outside Westminster.

Who will replace him as leader? Hopefully not another one who’s still stuck at the student politics level. This is a time of great opportunity to advance the once great Liberal cause – as long as the party dumps its airheads and their ludicrously self-indulgent policies which the British public simply aren’t buying.

Genuine leadership candidates are scarce in this administratively bloated party. I suspect its grandees like Sir Vince Cable or Paddy (Lord) Ashdown will have to take command on a caretaker basis until wiser (and greyer) heads regain control.

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And for those of us who are unable to afford a trip to the promised land, all we have to do is read Isaiah 11. Where it says that Jesus Christ will return and “smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.” And after this occurs, and only after the wicked are wiped off the face of this earth, will the real Israelites return to Jerusalem.

The ones in Israel today are not what God Almighty would call “chosen people.” They are imposters of the real thing to come.

Churches are in a state of confusion today because they listen to the pastor over and beyond what God’s Holy Word has to say. Verses like Psalms 116:11 refutes about ever theological tenet in America. “I said in my haste, All men are liars.”

Paedo hunter June 17, 2017 at 6:57 am

starnge that fellow Farron…..Christ is a Brexiteer….Farron is not….Farron bows down to the Jew EU Marxists….either that or he knows nothing of the cult of the EU

JohnZ June 17, 2017 at 6:40 am

Maybe he should go after Gordon Ramsay’s job. A good candidate for twit of the year. From the ministry of silly talks I would guess.
Religion and politics makes for strange bedfellows especially when zionism gets involved but then, zionism has nothing to do with religion ….or race. Now toss in xtian evangelicalism with zionism and you get the fetid mixture that it creates: xtian zionism,
Religion as a whole is the worst scam ever has been forced upon humanity. Nothing more than tool for tyranny and superstitious belief and when it comes to Jewry, the greatest sham of them all, not even P.T. Barnum could compete with this bunch but as he once said, ” there’s a sucker born every minute.”
Israel is losing the propaganda war. The internet being the Gutenberg press of the 21st century is now making it possible for everyone on the planet to learn the truth about that miserable little racist/ terrorist zionist state. The zionists no longer have control over the narrative and that’s what drives them crazy.
Keep it up! Let’s drive them to the wall.
This is the 21st century, time to toss out superstitious religious belief.

ayelyahbenjamin June 16, 2017 at 11:15 pm

“remain faithful?” …..Farron bowed and betrayed, took the 30 pieces of silver , faithful to israel is betrayal and enmity with Christ…… Ward is the faithful one, to truth, and Christ and Truth are inseparable…..”a huge operation”…”contaminating and infecting”…..”a machine designed to protect the state of Israel from criticism”….the whole world over

JohnZ June 17, 2017 at 6:43 am

This is the result of superstitious belief. Time to put an end to this judeo/xtian nonsense, evil, wicked and belligerent.

frog June 16, 2017 at 12:15 pm

Antisemitism is not some who hates jews, it is someone the zionist hate

JohnZ June 17, 2017 at 6:43 am

Indeed!

guibus June 16, 2017 at 12:04 pm

‘born again’ is not christian. It is hidden jewish ideology disguised as Christian faith.

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